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Volume 6;  2009
Commentaries
Inhibition of HIV-1 gene expression by Sam68ΔC: multiple targets but a common mechanism?
Alan Cochrane
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 22. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-22.
PMCID: PMC2651844
A historical reflection on the discovery of human retroviruses
Anders Vahlne
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 40. Published online 2009 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-40.
PMCID: PMC2686671
The co-receptor signaling model of HIV-1 pathogenesis in peripheral CD4 T cells
Yuntao Wu
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 41. Published online 2009 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-41.
PMCID: PMC2679705
Memories of John N. Brady: scientist, mentor and friend
Cynthia A Pise-Masison and Susan J Marriott
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 48. Published online 2009 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-48.
PMCID: PMC2693500
The 14th International Conference on Human Retrovirology: HTLV and related retroviruses (July 1–4, 2009; Salvador, Brazil)
Luc Willems
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 77. Published online 2009 August 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-77.
PMCID: PMC2734551
siRNA and shRNA screens advance key understanding of host factors required for HIV-1 replication
Kin-Hang Kok, Ting Lei, and Dong-Yan Jin
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 78. Published online 2009 August 27. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-78.
PMCID: PMC2743632
E box motifs as mediators of proviral latency of human retroviruses
Jean-Michel Terme, Sébastien Calvignac, Madeleine Duc Dodon, Louis Gazzolo, and Albert Jordan
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 81. Published online 2009 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-81.
PMCID: PMC2749803
On the steps of cell-to-cell HIV transmission between CD4 T cells
Isabel Puigdomènech, Marta Massanella, Cecilia Cabrera, Bonaventura Clotet, and Julià Blanco
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 89. Published online 2009 October 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-89.
PMCID: PMC2768678
Towards a genetic AIDS vaccine
Antonia V Bordería and Ben Berkhout
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 93. Published online 2009 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-93.
PMCID: PMC2766360
The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
Rachel Williams, Christine Mant, and John Cason
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 98. Published online 2009 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-98.
PMCID: PMC2779177
David D. Derse, 1949-2009
Maureen Shuh
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 110. Published online 2009 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-110.
PMCID: PMC2793252
Correspondence
HIV-1 integrase polymorphisms are associated with prior antiretroviral drug exposure
Sebastiaan J van Hal, Belinda Herring, Zaquan Deris, Bin Wang, Nitin K Saksena, and Dominic E Dwyer
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 12. Published online 2009 February 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-12.
PMCID: PMC2649883
The Spanish HIV BioBank: a model of cooperative HIV research
Isabel García-Merino, Natividad de las Cuevas, José Luis Jiménez, Jorge Gallego, Coral Gómez, Cristina Prieto, Ma Jesús Serramía, Raquel Lorente, Ma Ángeles Muñoz-Fernández, and Spanish HIV BioBank
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 27. Published online 2009 March 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-27.
PMCID: PMC2667474
Editorials
The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 82. Published online 2009 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-82.
PMCID: PMC2757017
HIV vaccine: it may take two to tango, but no party time yet
Ben Berkhout and William A Paxton
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 88. Published online 2009 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-88.
PMCID: PMC2765936
Endogenous Retroviruses: Thierry Heidmann wins the 2009 Retrovirology prize
Ali Saib and Monsef Benkirane
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 108. Published online 2009 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-108.
PMCID: PMC2791754
Two standards of care for HIV: Why are Africans being short-changed?
Mark A Wainberg
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 109. Published online 2009 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-109.
PMCID: PMC2789723
Research
MDM2 is a novel E3 ligase for HIV-1 Vif
Taisuke Izumi, Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, Kotaro Shirakawa, Hiroaki Higashitsuji, Katsuhiko Itoh, Katsuhiro Io, Masashi Matsui, Kazuhiro Iwai, Hiroshi Kondoh, Toshihiro Sato, Mitsunori Tomonaga, Satoru Ikeda, Hirofumi Akari, Yoshio Koyanagi, Jun Fujita, and Takashi Uchiyama
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 1. Published online 2009 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-1.
PMCID: PMC2629459
Human cyclin T1 expression ameliorates a T-cell-specific transcriptional limitation for HIV in transgenic rats, but is not sufficient for a spreading infection of prototypic R5 HIV-1 strains ex vivo
Nico Michel, Christine Goffinet, Kerstin Ganter, Ina Allespach, Vineet N KewalRamani, Mohammed Saifuddin, Dan R Littman, Warner C Greene, Mark A Goldsmith, and Oliver T Keppler
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 2. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-2.
PMCID: PMC2631513
Identification of two distinct structural regions in a human porcine endogenous retrovirus receptor, HuPAR2, contributing to function for viral entry
Katherine T Marcucci, Takele Argaw, Carolyn A Wilson, and Daniel R Salomon
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 3. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-3.
PMCID: PMC2630988
Dynamic features of the selective pressure on the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gp120 CD4-binding site in a group of long term non progressor (LTNP) subjects
Filippo Canducci, Maria Chiara Marinozzi, Michela Sampaolo, Stefano Berrè, Patrizia Bagnarelli, Massimo Degano, Giulia Gallotta, Benedetta Mazzi, Philippe Lemey, Roberto Burioni, and Massimo Clementi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 4. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-4.
PMCID: PMC2639529
Microarray study reveals that HIV-1 induces rapid type-I interferon-dependent p53 mRNA up-regulation in human primary CD4+ T cells
Michaël Imbeault, Michel Ouellet, and Michel J Tremblay
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 5. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-5.
PMCID: PMC2637825
Determinants in HIV-1 Nef for enhancement of virus replication and depletion of CD4+ T lymphocytes in human lymphoid tissue ex vivo
Stefanie Homann, Nadine Tibroni, Ingo Baumann, Serkan Sertel, Oliver T Keppler, and Oliver T Fackler
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 6. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-6.
PMCID: PMC2630989
Anti-adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma effects of indole-3-carbinol
Yoshiaki Machijima, Chie Ishikawa, Shigeki Sawada, Taeko Okudaira, Jun-nosuke Uchihara, Yuetsu Tanaka, Naoya Taira, and Naoki Mori
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 7. Published online 2009 January 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-7.
PMCID: PMC2635345
Ancient, independent evolution and distinct molecular features of the novel human T-lymphotropic virus type 4
William M Switzer, Marco Salemi, Shoukat H Qari, Hongwei Jia, Rebecca R Gray, Aris Katzourakis, Susan J Marriott, Kendle N Pryor, Nathan D Wolfe, Donald S Burke, Thomas M Folks, and Walid Heneine
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 9. Published online 2009 February 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-9.
PMCID: PMC2647524
Rev and Rex proteins of human complex retroviruses function with the MMTV Rem-responsive element
Jennifer A Mertz, Mary M Lozano, and Jaquelin P Dudley
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 10. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-10.
PMCID: PMC2661877
HIV-1 exploits importin 7 to maximize nuclear import of its DNA genome
Lyubov Zaitseva, Peter Cherepanov, Lada Leyens, Sam J Wilson, Jane Rasaiyaah, and Ariberto Fassati
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 11. Published online 2009 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-11.
PMCID: PMC2660290
Destabilization of the TAR hairpin leads to extension of the polyA hairpin and inhibition of HIV-1 polyadenylation
Martine M Vrolijk, Alex Harwig, Ben Berkhout, and Atze T Das
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 13. Published online 2009 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-13.
PMCID: PMC2645353
Effects of the K65R and K65R/M184V reverse transcriptase mutations in subtype C HIV on enzyme function and drug resistance
Hong-Tao Xu, Jorge L Martinez-Cajas, Michel L Ntemgwa, Dimitrios Coutsinos, Fernando A Frankel, Bluma G Brenner, and Mark A Wainberg
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 14. Published online 2009 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-14.
PMCID: PMC2644664
Massively parallel pyrosequencing highlights minority variants in the HIV-1 env quasispecies deriving from lymphomonocyte sub-populations
Gabriella Rozera, Isabella Abbate, Alessandro Bruselles, Crhysoula Vlassi, Gianpiero D'Offizi, Pasquale Narciso, Giovanni Chillemi, Mattia Prosperi, Giuseppe Ippolito, and Maria R Capobianchi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 15. Published online 2009 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-15.
PMCID: PMC2660291
APOBEC3G induces a hypermutation gradient: purifying selection at multiple steps during HIV-1 replication results in levels of G-to-A mutations that are high in DNA, intermediate in cellular viral RNA, and low in virion RNA
Rebecca A Russell, Michael D Moore, Wei-Shau Hu, and Vinay K Pathak
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 16. Published online 2009 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-16.
PMCID: PMC2657108
Human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K(HML-2) encodes a stable signal peptide with biological properties distinct from Rec
Alessia Ruggieri, Esther Maldener, Marlies Sauter, Nikolaus Mueller-Lantzsch, Eckart Meese, Oliver T Fackler, and Jens Mayer
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 17. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-17.
PMCID: PMC2649029
HIV-1 TAR miRNA protects against apoptosis by altering cellular gene expression
Zachary Klase, Rafael Winograd, Jeremiah Davis, Lawrence Carpio, Richard Hildreth, Mohammad Heydarian, Sidney Fu, Timothy McCaffrey, Eti Meiri, Mila Ayash-Rashkovsky, Shlomit Gilad, Zwi Bentwich, and Fatah Kashanchi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 18. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-18.
PMCID: PMC2654423
In vivo expression of the HBZ gene of HTLV-1 correlates with proviral load, inflammatory markers and disease severity in HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP)
Mineki Saito, Toshio Matsuzaki, Yorifumi Satou, Jun-ichirou Yasunaga, Kousuke Saito, Kimiyoshi Arimura, Masao Matsuoka, and Yoshiro Ohara
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 19. Published online 2009 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-19.
PMCID: PMC2653460
Recruitment of HIV-1 envelope occurs subsequent to lipid mixing: a fluorescence microscopic evidence
Miao-Ping Chien, Chi-Hui Lin, and Ding-Kwo Chang
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 20. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-20.
PMCID: PMC2653015
Modulation of HIV-1 infectivity and cyclophilin A-dependence by Gag sequence and target cell type
Saori Matsuoka, Elisabeth Dam, Denise Lecossier, François Clavel, and Allan J Hance
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 21. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-21.
PMCID: PMC2653016
APOBEC3G mRNA expression in exposed seronegative and early stage HIV infected individuals decreases with removal of exposure and with disease progression
Joel A Vázquez-Pérez, Christopher E Ormsby, Ramón Hernández-Juan, Klintsy J Torres, and Gustavo Reyes-Terán
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 23. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-23.
PMCID: PMC2661038
Suppression of HIV-1 replication by microRNA effectors
Christine Chable-Bessia, Oussama Meziane, Daniel Latreille, Robinson Triboulet, Alessia Zamborlini, Alexandre Wagschal, Jean-Marc Jacquet, Jacques Reynes, Yves Levy, Ali Saib, Yamina Bennasser, and Monsef Benkirane
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 26. Published online 2009 March 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-26.
PMCID: PMC2657893
A role for CD81 on the late steps of HIV-1 replication in a chronically infected T cell line
Boyan Grigorov, Valérie Attuil-Audenis, Fabien Perugi, Martine Nedelec, Sarah Watson, Claudine Pique, Jean-Luc Darlix, Hélène Conjeaud, and Delphine Muriaux
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 28. Published online 2009 March 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-28.
PMCID: PMC2657109
A dose-effect relationship for deltaretrovirus-dependent leukemogenesis in sheep
Carole Pomier, Maria Teresa Sanchez Alcaraz, Christophe Debacq, Agnes Lançon, Pierre Kerkhofs, Lucas Willems, Eric Wattel, and Franck Mortreux
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 30. Published online 2009 April 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-30.
PMCID: PMC2670259
A novel HIV-1 restriction factor that is biologically distinct from APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases in a human T cell line CEM.NKR
Tao Zhou, Yanxing Han, Ying Dang, Xiaojun Wang, and Yong-Hui Zheng
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 31. Published online 2009 April 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-31.
PMCID: PMC2676246
Accuracy estimation of foamy virus genome copying
Kathleen Gärtner, Tatiana Wiktorowicz, Jeonghae Park, Ayalew Mergia, Axel Rethwilm, and Carsten Scheller
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 32. Published online 2009 April 6. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-32.
PMCID: PMC2678077
Isolation and characterization of a small antiretroviral molecule affecting HIV-1 capsid morphology
Samir Abdurahman, Ákos Végvári, Michael Levi, Stefan Höglund, Marita Högberg, Weimin Tong, Ivan Romero, Jan Balzarini, and Anders Vahlne
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 34. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-34.
PMCID: PMC2670814
Induction of p21CIP1/WAF1 expression by human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 Tax requires transcriptional activation and mRNA stabilization
Ling Zhang, Huijun Zhi, Meihong Liu, Yu-Liang Kuo, and Chou-Zen Giam
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 35. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-35.
PMCID: PMC2676247
Conservation of Nef function across highly diverse lineages of SIVsmm
Jan Schmökel, Hui Li, Elizabeth Bailes, Michael Schindler, Guido Silvestri, Beatrice H Hahn, Cristian Apetrei, and Frank Kirchhoff
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 36. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-36.
PMCID: PMC2678078
Analysis of transcribed human endogenous retrovirus W env loci clarifies the origin of multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus env sequences
Georg Laufer, Jens Mayer, Benedikt F Mueller, Nikolaus Mueller-Lantzsch, and Klemens Ruprecht
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 37. Published online 2009 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-37.
PMCID: PMC2672075
Close phylogenetic relationship between Angolan and Romanian HIV-1 subtype F1 isolates
Monick L Guimarães, Ana Carolina P Vicente, Koko Otsuki, Rosa Ferreira FC da Silva, Moises Francisco, Filomena Gomes da Silva, Ducelina Serrano, Mariza G Morgado, and Gonzalo Bello
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 39. Published online 2009 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-39.
PMCID: PMC2680801
TLR2 and TLR4 triggering exerts contrasting effects with regard to HIV-1 infection of human dendritic cells and subsequent virus transfer to CD4+ T cells
Sandra Thibault, Rémi Fromentin, Mélanie R Tardif, and Michel J Tremblay
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 42. Published online 2009 May 6. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-42.
PMCID: PMC2691729
Synergistic effect of human CycT1 and CRM1 on HIV-1 propagation in rat T cells and macrophages
Hiroyuki Okada, Xianfeng Zhang, Ismael Ben Fofana, Mika Nagai, Hajime Suzuki, Takashi Ohashi, and Hisatoshi Shida
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 43. Published online 2009 May 12. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-43.
PMCID: PMC2693497
The triple combination of tenofovir, emtricitabine and efavirenz shows synergistic anti-HIV-1 activity in vitro: a mechanism of action study
Joy Y Feng, John K Ly, Florence Myrick, Derrick Goodman, Kirsten L White, Evguenia S Svarovskaia, Katyna Borroto-Esoda, and Michael D Miller
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 44. Published online 2009 May 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-44.
PMCID: PMC2693498
Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 CRF07_BC strains circulating in the Xinjiang Province of China
Liying Ma, Yanfang Guo, Lin Yuan, Yang Huang, Jianping Sun, Shuiling Qu, Xiaoling Yu, Zhefeng Meng, Xiang He, Shibo Jiang, and Yiming Shao
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 45. Published online 2009 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-45.
PMCID: PMC2693499
Proteasome-independent degradation of HIV-1 in naturally non-permissive human placental trophoblast cells
Anna Laura Ross, Claude Cannou, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Elisabeth Menu
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 46. Published online 2009 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-46.
PMCID: PMC2689159
In vitro nuclear interactome of the HIV-1 Tat protein
Virginie W Gautier, Lili Gu, Niaobh O'Donoghue, Stephen Pennington, Noreen Sheehy, and William W Hall
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 47. Published online 2009 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-47.
PMCID: PMC2702331
Tracing the HIV-1 subtype B mobility in Europe: a phylogeographic approach
Dimitrios Paraskevis, Oliver Pybus, Gkikas Magiorkinis, Angelos Hatzakis, Annemarie MJ Wensing, David A van de Vijver, Jan Albert, Guiseppe Angarano, Birgitta Åsjö, Claudia Balotta, Enzo Boeri, Ricardo Camacho, Marie-Laure Chaix, Suzie Coughlan, Dominique Costagliola, Andrea De Luca, Carmen de Mendoza, Inge Derdelinckx, Zehava Grossman, Osama Hamouda, IM Hoepelman, Andrzej Horban, Klaus Korn, Claudia Kücherer, Thomas Leitner, Clive Loveday, Eilidh MacRae, I Maljkovic-Berry, Laurence Meyer, Claus Nielsen, Eline LM Op de Coul, Vidar Ormaasen, Luc Perrin, Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, Lidia Ruiz, Mika O Salminen, Jean-Claude Schmit, Rob Schuurman, Vincent Soriano, J Stanczak, Maja Stanojevic, Daniel Struck, Kristel Van Laethem, M Violin, Sabine Yerly, Maurizio Zazzi, Charles A Boucher, and Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 49. Published online 2009 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-49.
PMCID: PMC2717046
Multiple-infection and recombination in HIV-1 within a longitudinal cohort of women
Alan R Templeton, Melissa G Kramer, Joseph Jarvis, Jeanne Kowalski, Stephen Gange, Michael F Schneider, Qiujia Shao, Guang Wen Zhang, Mei-Fen Yeh, Hua-Ling Tsai, Hong Zhang, and Richard B Markham
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 54. Published online 2009 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-54.
PMCID: PMC2700066
96 shRNAs designed for maximal coverage of HIV-1 variants
Glen John Mcintyre, Jennifer Lynne Groneman, Yi-Hsin Yu, Angel Jaramillo, Sylvie Shen, and Tanya Lynn Applegate
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 55. Published online 2009 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-55.
PMCID: PMC2698899
Intracellular interactions between APOBEC3G, RNA, and HIV-1 Gag: APOBEC3G multimerization is dependent on its association with RNA
Yeshitila N Friew, Vitaly Boyko, Wei-Shau Hu, and Vinay K Pathak
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 56. Published online 2009 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-56.
PMCID: PMC2700067
Nef gene evolution from a single transmitted strain in acute SIV infection
Benjamin N Bimber, Pauline Chugh, Elena E Giorgi, Baek Kim, Anthony L Almudevar, Stephen Dewhurst, David H O'Connor, and Ha Youn Lee
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 57. Published online 2009 June 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-57.
PMCID: PMC2701916
Genotyping of TRIM5 locus in northern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca leonina), a primate species susceptible to Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 infection
Yi-Qun Kuang, Xia Tang, Feng-Liang Liu, Xue-Long Jiang, Ya-Ping Zhang, Guangxia Gao, and Yong-Tang Zheng
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 58. Published online 2009 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-58.
PMCID: PMC2703620
OVEX1, a novel chicken endogenous retrovirus with sex-specific and left-right asymmetrical expression in gonads
Danièle Carré-Eusèbe, Noëlline Coudouel, and Solange Magre
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 59. Published online 2009 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-59.
PMCID: PMC2717909
Role of complement and antibodies in controlling infection with pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in macaques vaccinated with replication-deficient viral vectors
Barbara Falkensammer, Barbara Rubner, Alexander Hiltgartner, Doris Wilflingseder, Christiane Stahl Hennig, Seraphin Kuate, Klaus Überla, Stephen Norley, Alexander Strasak, Paul Racz, and Heribert Stoiber
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 60. Published online 2009 June 21. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-60.
PMCID: PMC2713197
Discovery of novel targets for multi-epitope vaccines: Screening of HIV-1 genomes using association rule mining
Sinu Paul and Helen Piontkivska
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 62. Published online 2009 July 6. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-62.
PMCID: PMC2716299
Tetraspanins regulate cell-to-cell transmission of HIV-1
Dimitry N Krementsov, Jia Weng, Marie Lambelé, Nathan H Roy, and Markus Thali
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 64. Published online 2009 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-64.
PMCID: PMC2714829
Pathogenic infection of Macaca nemestrina with a CCR5-tropic subtype-C simian-human immunodeficiency virus
On Ho, Kay Larsen, Patricia Polacino, Yun Li, David Anderson, Ruijiang Song, Ruth M Ruprecht, and Shiu-Lok Hu
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 65. Published online 2009 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-65.
PMCID: PMC2720380
Cross-packaging of genetically distinct mouse and primate retroviral RNAs
Noura Salem Al Dhaheri, Pretty Susan Phillip, Akela Ghazawi, Jahabar Ali, Elizabeth Beebi, Soumeya Ali Jaballah, and Tahir A Rizvi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 66. Published online 2009 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-66.
PMCID: PMC2723071
Proviral integrations and expression of endogenous Avian leucosis virus during long term selection for high and low body weight in two chicken lines
Sojeong Ka, Susanne Kerje, Lina Bornold, Ulrika Liljegren, Paul B Siegel, Leif Andersson, and Finn Hallböök
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 68. Published online 2009 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-68.
PMCID: PMC2717048
Modification of a loop sequence between α-helices 6 and 7 of virus capsid (CA) protein in a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) derivative that has simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVmac239) vif and CA α-helices 4 and 5 loop improves replication in cynomolgus monkey cells
Ayumu Kuroishi, Akatsuki Saito, Yasuhiro Shingai, Tatsuo Shioda, Masako Nomaguchi, Akio Adachi, Hirofumi Akari, and Emi E Nakayama
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 70. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-70.
PMCID: PMC2731049
Unique features of HLA-mediated HIV evolution in a Mexican cohort: a comparative study
Santiago Avila-Rios, Christopher E Ormsby, Jonathan M Carlson, Humberto Valenzuela-Ponce, Juan Blanco-Heredia, Daniela Garrido-Rodriguez, Claudia Garcia-Morales, David Heckerman, Zabrina L Brumme, Simon Mallal, Mina John, Enrique Espinosa, and Gustavo Reyes-Teran
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 72. Published online 2009 August 10. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-72.
PMCID: PMC2734549
Involvement of TORC2, a CREB co-activator, in the in vivo-specific transcriptional control of HTLV-1
Shiwen Jiang, Takefumi Inada, Masakazu Tanaka, Rika A Furuta, Koh Shingu, and Jun-ichi Fujisawa
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 73. Published online 2009 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-73.
PMCID: PMC2734550
Mechanism of HIV-1 Tat RNA translation and its activation by the Tat protein
Nicolas Charnay, Roland Ivanyi-Nagy, Ricardo Soto-Rifo, Théophile Ohlmann, Marcelo López-Lastra, and Jean-Luc Darlix
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 74. Published online 2009 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-74.
PMCID: PMC2739156
Complementation of diverse HIV-1 Env defects through cooperative subunit interactions: a general property of the functional trimer
Karl Salzwedel and Edward A Berger
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 75. Published online 2009 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-75.
PMCID: PMC2738651
The formation of cysteine-linked dimers of BST-2/tetherin is important for inhibition of HIV-1 virus release but not for sensitivity to Vpu
Amy J Andrew, Eri Miyagi, Sandra Kao, and Klaus Strebel
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 80. Published online 2009 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-80.
PMCID: PMC2754425
Identification of a novel motif responsible for the distinctive transforming activity of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) type 1 Tax1 protein from HTLV-2 Tax2
Toshiyuki Shoji, Masaya Higuchi, Rie Kondo, Masahiko Takahashi, Masayasu Oie, Yuetsu Tanaka, Yutaka Aoyagi, and Masahiro Fujii
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 83. Published online 2009 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-83.
PMCID: PMC2754985
Visualizing fusion of pseudotyped HIV-1 particles in real time by live cell microscopy
Peter Koch, Marko Lampe, William J Godinez, Barbara Müller, Karl Rohr, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, and Maik J Lehmann
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 84. Published online 2009 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-84.
PMCID: PMC2762461
Perinatal acquisition of drug-resistant HIV-1 infection: mechanisms and long-term outcome
Constance Delaugerre, Marie-Laure Chaix, Stephane Blanche, Josiane Warszawski, Dorine Cornet, Catherine Dollfus, Veronique Schneider, Marianne Burgard, Albert Faye, Laurent Mandelbrot, Roland Tubiana, Christine Rouzioux, and the ANRS French Perinatal Cohort
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 85. Published online 2009 September 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-85.
PMCID: PMC2756278
Six host range variants of the xenotropic/polytropic gammaretroviruses define determinants for entry in the XPR1 cell surface receptor
Yuhe Yan, Qingping Liu, and Christine A Kozak
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 87. Published online 2009 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-87.
PMCID: PMC2768677
Inhibition of HIV-1 gene expression by Ciclopirox and Deferiprone, drugs that prevent hypusination of eukaryotic initiation factor 5A
Mainul Hoque, Hartmut M Hanauske-Abel, Paul Palumbo, Deepti Saxena, Darlene D'Alliessi Gandolfi, Myung Hee Park, Tsafi Pe'ery, and Michael B Mathews
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 90. Published online 2009 October 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-90.
PMCID: PMC2770518
Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients
Oliver Hohn, Hans Krause, Pia Barbarotto, Lars Niederstadt, Nadine Beimforde, Joachim Denner, Kurt Miller, Reinhard Kurth, and Norbert Bannert
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 92. Published online 2009 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-92.
PMCID: PMC2770519
Biochemical and virological analysis of the 18-residue C-terminal tail of HIV-1 integrase
Mohd J Dar, Blandine Monel, Lavanya Krishnan, Ming-Chieh Shun, Francesca Di Nunzio, Dag E Helland, and Alan Engelman
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 94. Published online 2009 October 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-94.
PMCID: PMC2770994
An EIAV field isolate reveals much higher levels of subtype variability than currently reported for the equine lentivirus family
Jodi K Craigo, Shannon Barnes, Baoshan Zhang, Sheila J Cook, Laryssa Howe, Charles J Issel, and Ronald C Montelaro
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 95. Published online 2009 October 20. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-95.
PMCID: PMC2770520
Genetic characterization of the complete genome of a highly divergent simian T-lymphotropic virus (STLV) type 3 from a wild Cercopithecus mona monkey
David M Sintasath, Nathan D Wolfe, Hao Qiang Zheng, Matthew LeBreton, Martine Peeters, Ubald Tamoufe, Cyrille F Djoko, Joseph LD Diffo, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole, Walid Heneine, and William M Switzer
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 97. Published online 2009 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-97.
PMCID: PMC2777865
Encapsidation of APOBEC3G into HIV-1 virions involves lipid raft association and does not correlate with APOBEC3G oligomerization
Mohammad A Khan, Ritu Goila-Gaur, Sandra Kao, Eri Miyagi, Robert C Walker, Jr, and Klaus Strebel
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 99. Published online 2009 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-99.
PMCID: PMC2776001
RT-SHIV subpopulation dynamics in infected macaques during anti-HIV therapy
Wei Shao, Mary Kearney, Frank Maldarelli, John W Mellors, Robert M Stephens, Jeffrey D Lifson, Vineet N KewalRamani, Zandrea Ambrose, John M Coffin, and Sarah E Palmer
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 101. Published online 2009 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-101.
PMCID: PMC2776578
Reduced levels of reactive oxygen species correlate with inhibition of apoptosis, rise in thioredoxin expression and increased bovine leukemia virus proviral loads
Amel Baya Bouzar, Mathieu Boxus, Arnaud Florins, Carole François, Michal Reichert, and Luc Willems
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 102. Published online 2009 November 10. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-102.
PMCID: PMC2779800
Comparative biochemical analysis of HIV-1 subtype B and C integrase enzymes
Tamara Bar-Magen, Richard D Sloan, Verena H Faltenbacher, Daniel A Donahue, Björn D Kuhl, Maureen Oliveira, Hongtao Xu, and Mark A Wainberg
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 103. Published online 2009 November 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-103.
PMCID: PMC2779801
B cells and monocytes from patients with active multiple sclerosis exhibit increased surface expression of both HERV-H Env and HERV-W Env, accompanied by increased seroreactivity
Tomasz Brudek, Tove Christensen, Lars Aagaard, Thor Petersen, Hans J Hansen, and Anné Møller-Larsen
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 104. Published online 2009 November 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-104.
PMCID: PMC2780989
Phosphorylation regulates human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 Rex function
Matthew Kesic, Rami Doueiri, Michael Ward, O John Semmes, and Patrick L Green
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 105. Published online 2009 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-105.
PMCID: PMC2780990
Dynamics of viral replication in blood and lymphoid tissues during SIVmac251 infection of macaques
Abdelkrim Mannioui, Olivier Bourry, Pierre Sellier, Benoit Delache, Patricia Brochard, Thibault Andrieu, Bruno Vaslin, Ingrid Karlsson, Pierre Roques, and Roger Le Grand
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 106. Published online 2009 November 23. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-106.
PMCID: PMC2789052
Identification of an endogenous retroviral envelope gene with fusogenic activity and placenta-specific expression in the rabbit: a new "syncytin" in a third order of mammals
Odile Heidmann, Cécile Vernochet, Anne Dupressoir, and Thierry Heidmann
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 107. Published online 2009 November 27. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-107.
PMCID: PMC2789053
DNA double strand break repair enzymes function at multiple steps in retroviral infection
Yasuteru Sakurai, Kenshi Komatsu, Kazunaga Agematsu, and Masao Matsuoka
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 114. Published online 2009 December 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-114.
PMCID: PMC2797772
Reviews
Mechanisms employed by retroviruses to exploit host factors for translational control of a complicated proteome
Cheryl Bolinger and Kathleen Boris-Lawrie
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 8. Published online 2009 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-8.
PMCID: PMC2657110
When is it time for reverse transcription to start and go?
Marylène Mougel, Laurent Houzet, and Jean-Luc Darlix
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 24. Published online 2009 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-24.
PMCID: PMC2656454
Raltegravir, elvitegravir, and metoogravir: the birth of "me-too" HIV-1 integrase inhibitors
Erik Serrao, Srinivas Odde, Kavya Ramkumar, and Nouri Neamati
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 25. Published online 2009 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-25.
PMCID: PMC2660292
What does the structure-function relationship of the HIV-1 Tat protein teach us about developing an AIDS vaccine?
Grant R Campbell and Erwann P Loret
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 50. Published online 2009 May 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-50.
PMCID: PMC2693501
HIV interactions with monocytes and dendritic cells: viral latency and reservoirs
Christopher M Coleman and Li Wu
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 51. Published online 2009 June 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-51.
PMCID: PMC2697150
The HBZ gene, a key player in HTLV-1 pathogenesis
Masao Matsuoka and Patrick L Green
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 71. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-71.
PMCID: PMC2731725
The utilization of humanized mouse models for the study of human retroviral infections
Rachel Van Duyne, Caitlin Pedati, Irene Guendel, Lawrence Carpio, Kylene Kehn-Hall, Mohammed Saifuddin, and Fatah Kashanchi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 76. Published online 2009 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-76.
PMCID: PMC2743631
Role of the Fas/FasL pathway in HIV or SIV disease
Bhawna Poonia, C David Pauza, and Maria S Salvato
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 91. Published online 2009 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-91.
PMCID: PMC2772842
Molecular control of HIV-1 postintegration latency: implications for the development of new therapeutic strategies
Laurence Colin and Carine Van Lint
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 111. Published online 2009 December 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-111.
PMCID: PMC2797771
Short Reports
Increased neutrophil apoptosis in chronically SIV-infected macaques
Carole Elbim, Valérie Monceaux, Stéphanie François, Bruno Hurtrel, Marie-Anne Gougerot-Pocidalo, and Jérome Estaquier
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 29. Published online 2009 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-29.
PMCID: PMC2667475
High level expression of the anti-retroviral protein APOBEC3G is induced by influenza A virus but does not confer antiviral activity
Eva-K Pauli, Mirco Schmolke, Henning Hofmann, Christina Ehrhardt, Egbert Flory, Carsten Münk, and Stephan Ludwig
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 38. Published online 2009 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-38.
PMCID: PMC2672920
"Shock and kill" effects of class I-selective histone deacetylase inhibitors in combination with the glutathione synthesis inhibitor buthionine sulfoximine in cell line models for HIV-1 quiescence
Andrea Savarino, Antonello Mai, Sandro Norelli, Sary El Daker, Sergio Valente, Dante Rotili, Lucia Altucci, Anna Teresa Palamara, and Enrico Garaci
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 52. Published online 2009 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-52.
PMCID: PMC2697151
Comparative study on the effect of human BST-2/Tetherin on HIV-1 release in cells of various species
Kei Sato, Seiji P Yamamoto, Naoko Misawa, Takeshi Yoshida, Takayuki Miyazawa, and Yoshio Koyanagi
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 53. Published online 2009 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-53.
PMCID: PMC2702332
Reactivation from latency displays HIV particle budding at plasma membrane, accompanying CD44 upregulation and recruitment
Mari Suyama, Eriko Daikoku, Toshiyuki Goto, Kouichi Sano, and Yuko Morikawa
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 63. Published online 2009 July 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-63.
PMCID: PMC2714482
Ethnic differences in the adaptation rate of HIV gp120 from a vaccine trial
Marcos Pérez-Losada, David Posada, Miguel Arenas, David V Jobes, Faruk Sinangil, Phillip W Berman, and Keith A Crandall
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 67. Published online 2009 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-67.
PMCID: PMC2717047
Enhanced macrophage tropism of HIV in brain and lymphoid tissues is associated with sensitivity to the broadly neutralizing CD4 binding site antibody b12
Rebecca L Dunfee, Elaine R Thomas, and Dana Gabuzda
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 69. Published online 2009 July 20. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-69.
PMCID: PMC2717910
Identification of a high incidence region for retroviral vector integration near exon 1 of the LMO2 locus
Koichiro Yamada, Tomonori Tsukahara, Kazuhisa Yoshino, Katsuhiko Kojima, Hideyuki Agawa, Yuki Yamashita, Yuji Amano, Mariko Hatta, Yasunori Matsuzaki, Naoki Kurotori, Keiko Wakui, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Ryosuke Osada, Tanri Shiozawa, Kazuo Sakashita, Kenichi Koike, Satoru Kumaki, Nobuyuki Tanaka, and Toshikazu Takeshita
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 79. Published online 2009 September 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-79.
PMCID: PMC2742512
Unintended spread of a biosafety level 2 recombinant retrovirus
Alexander Stang, Elisabeth Petrasch-Parwez, Sabine Brandt, Rolf Dermietzel, Helmut E Meyer, Kai Stühler, Sven-T Liffers, Klaus Überla, and Thomas Grunwald
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 86. Published online 2009 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-86.
PMCID: PMC2760500
Human APOBEC1 cytidine deaminase edits HBV DNA
Minerva Cervantes Gonzalez, Rodolphe Suspène, Michel Henry, Denise Guétard, Simon Wain-Hobson, and Jean-Pierre Vartanian
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 96. Published online 2009 October 21. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-96.
PMCID: PMC2770521
TRIM5α and TRIMCyp form apparent hexamers and their multimeric state is not affected by exposure to restriction-sensitive viruses or by treatment with pharmacological inhibitors
Marie-Édith Nepveu-Traversy, Julie Bérubé, and Lionel Berthoux
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 100. Published online 2009 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-100.
PMCID: PMC2774676
Correction
Raltegravir, elvitegravir, and metoogravir: the birth of "me-too" HIV-1 integrase inhibitors
Erik Serrao, Srinivas Odde, Kavya Ramkumar, and Nouri Neamati
Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 33. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-33.
PMCID: PMC2672074
Corrects: Erik Serrao, et al. Raltegravir, elvitegravir, and metoogravir: the birth of "me-too" HIV-1 integrase inhibitors. Retrovirology. 2009; 6: 25.
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